This is a book about the transformation of sovereignty in the United Kingdom and the European Union, about the transition from 'sovereign states' to 'post-sovereign states', about devolution and nationalism and the future of the British union.

• 1: The Legal Framework: Institutional Normative Order


• 2: The State and the Law


• 3: The Interest of the State and the Rule of Law


• 4: The United Kingdom: What State? What Constitution?


• 5: The Benthamite Constitution: Decline and Fall?


• 6: A Very British Revolution?


• 7: Juridical Pluralism and the Risk of Constitutional Conflict


• 8: On Sovereignty and Post-Sovereignty


• 9: Democracy and Subsidiarity in the European Environment


• 10: Some Questions of Freedom


• 11: A Kind of Nationality


• 12: New Unions for Old

The late Neil MacCormick was Regius Professor of Public Law at the University of Edinburgh and a Member of the European Parliament.